Soul Painter

When the demon army arrived outside Berlin.

Paris, free from war for a long time, can still maintain the last trace of decency.

Its education system, health care system and public service system are still functioning.

And since the plague of rats began to run rampant in Paris and other places.

The city's various service systems began to collapse.

Had to rely on the army to maintain the basic order of urban life.

However, this huge modern city with a population of tens of millions can still survive. Many citizens have hoarded a large amount of daily necessities at home, locked their doors behind closed doors, and waited for the day when order returned to normal. For student Alan Duncan, this period of time is a rare leisure time in the busy schedule.

Alan Duncan's family is rich. A few days ago, he called his classmates who were stranded in Paris to hold a dance, until a few rats disturbed their interest. Rats are not difficult to deal with for a group of young students who took drugs and got HIGH Object, they killed these rats on the spot, and were injured in the process of fighting.

In the next few days, Alan Duncan was admitted to the hospital. Antibiotics can ensure his health. When he returned home, his body was still relatively weak, and he had been lying in his room. This morning, the giant mouse Attack the whole of Paris, let the whole terrorist incident escalate again.

After Alan Duncan’s mother finished reading the news reports, she pushed open the door of her son’s room with breakfast in her mouth. Now that supplies are scarce in Paris, the breakfast at Duncan’s family never lacks Prague ham from the Czech Republic and sweet oranges from Spain. The finished juice, and when the mother saw the scene in the room, the dinner plate in her hand fell to the ground.

Alan Duncan is turning into a mouse.

He has black hair all over his body, moaning in pain on the bed, his eyes are turning blood red, his mouth is pointed and protruding, his ears are black and elongated, and the nails on his hands and feet are becoming extremely sharp...

When the Paris security forces received the alarm.

This high-end apartment surrounded by heavy iron fences has become a horrible scene of murder. The huge mouse is devouring his mother's body, and the nanny is also lying in a pool of blood. The security forces shot and killed the mouse , and deduced from the few remaining clothes on it that he might have been a human once. .

This kind of tragedy didn't just happen in this apartment. The security forces found the same cases everywhere. This discovery made all witnesses feel chills down their spines. It meant that those giant rats that were crushed by tanks on the street, all It was the citizens of Paris who changed.

So are they aiming their guns at their fellow humans...

This knowledge blew through everyone's hearts like a cold wind.

But at the moment, the commander of the security forces stationed in Paris suppressed the spread of this news. He didn't even ask the investigator who assisted him, that is, Han Meimei, the representative of STK, to give an explanation, because the rats had already appeared, and they were humans. Naturally grown, it doesn't matter at all.

Regarding the public opinion about attacking civilians, it is something to worry about after winning the urban war. If you can’t win, who cares whether it’s a mouse or a Parisian citizen who dies? It’s just a number on the death list. .

Soon, the staff sent more detailed findings to the commander.

"For all the humans suspected of being bitten by rats, although the plague has been cured, the mysterious influence is showing. This should be the direct cause of their turning into giant rats."

This survey also explained the reason why cat-like rats and dog-like rats appeared before, not that the rats were growing up, but other animals were turned into rats, and now humans are included in this list.

...

After Gao Fan left the apartment.

And the mutated giant rat queen appeared on the street.

Lawrence barely slept.

I also felt uneasy in the dream, he was hot all over, his body was constantly sweating, it felt as if something was about to grow out of his body, those things were strong and black, they were going to break through his skin, pierce his bone marrow, and replace his body. His soul, however, in this restlessness and tossing and turning, a coolness covered his forehead.

Lawrence managed to open his eyes, and saw a woman sitting beside his bed in a blurred vision. The coolness on her forehead should be a towel. After blinking, the vision gradually became clear. He thought it was Anna, but later It turned out to be Han Meimei.

"Han..." Lawrence cried out weakly.

Han Meimei is back.

"It's okay, you just have a fever." Han Meimei said.

"But I..." Lawrence lifted his arm weakly, and looked at the clump of black hair growing on the back of his hand, which meant that his brain had shut down due to high fever, and he knew it was abnormal.

"You have a fever because of the pollution." Han Meimei said, "The wizard of the Ganges is polluting the city crazily. Humans and animals bitten by rats will be his minions, but don't worry, this demon is getting crazier now. The closer he is to perdition, the sooner it will be over."

"Then... what should I do..." Lawrence also knew that those soldiers in the war would be polluted and turned into a pool of rotten meat, and they would never be spared. What about him? What will he become?

"Don't worry, with me here, you won't turn into a mouse in a short time." Han Meimei comforted Lawrence, "The painter will save everything next."

"You know...why don't you stop...?" Lawrence's thinking became clearer, at least the thoughts in his mind could be connected back and forth, and this thought made him shiver like lightning.

As a representative of the investigator organization STK, Lawrence does not understand how miraculous Han Meimei is. When investigators coexist with the mystery behind them, their ability is not a visible light or a gust of wind, but an interference with the basic logic of this world. , which is difficult to understand and difficult to describe.

But Han Meimei's tone of course gave Lawrence the feeling that "she knew all this a long time ago". This feeling was not due to rational analysis, but emotional intuition.

Only when Han Meimei left Paris could the devil dare to be so presumptuous.

"Paris is not important, what matters is the painter." Han Meimei said, "If you sacrifice a city, you can get the key to defeating the demon army, then everything is worth it."

A kind of horror ran through Lawrence's back like lightning. He raised his head with difficulty, looked at the clumps of black hair all over his body, and felt the madness that was about to break out. At this moment, he fell into an unprecedented In despair.

He and the citizens of Paris are just sacrificial offerings from the perspective of the person in front of him.

...

at dusk.

The outskirts of Paris, which is infested with rats.

A 20th-century Dodge car turns up.

The passengers on the vehicle looked curiously at the majestic city of Paris before them, and realized that they were in the wrong era.